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WILLIAIiI F. CONVERSE, OF HARRISON, OHIO.

am Patent No. 77,589, ma mty y5,1868.

-IIiIPItOvInIIIaIT IIIPORTABLE FENCE.

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To WHOM IT MAY OONOERN:

Be it know'n thatI, WILLIAM F. CONVERSE, of Harrison, Hamiltoucounty, Ohio',have invented a Iiew and l useful Portable Fence;v and I do hereby declare Athe,following to be afull, clear, 'and 'exctdescriptionof the same, reference being had to .theuccompanyingdrawings, making part of this specification.

My invention relates tothe class of portable fences which comprise a series of panels connected together' in a. zigzag er worin "forni, and consists in devicesy for' rapidlytand cheaply yet securely uniting Athe con secutive panels.

' Figure 1 is a perspectiye View showing two panels secured hy my fastening.

Figure 2 is atop View of the sana/e.-

Figures 3 andirre enlarged horizontal sections of a. joint, showing the mode of applying Inyhooks land key respectively.

Figure 5 is a horizo'ntalsection of it corner.

Figures 6, '7,4 and 8, 4represent modifications of my fastening. t

A A represent two contiguous panels sottogether atan obtuse .'Ingle.` B. Bgare two lS-foI-'liled hooks, which being slipped throughbetween the hattens (C/have their curvedextremities engaged around the edges vofthe bnttens,'as' shown in iig, The saidl'hooks having been thus inserted; are made permanently secure, and at'the same time the panels are retained'im'movably in their proper zigzag position, by the insertion froxiu above of a key, D, whose taper corresponds to the anglefoi' the-panels, and which khas a. head, d', to prevent itsesc'ape endwise.v In practice, Ins-e foursuch'hooks, and tn'osuch keys at each'joint, :is clearly shown in fig. 1.

' When itis desired to unite two panels c olnerwise of at rightnnglcs, I use a piece of wire, -which I call the T, (see E, fig. 5,) which being bont nt its middle s'o as to form a small circle, and thencebeing'contiguous and parallel, I` insert 'the ltwo ends through bothposts, and curve the samevinto the form of the two vopposite hooks ee, which engage around two of the batterie, in the manner shown in iig. 5. Figs. 6, 7,V and 8, exhibit vinferior modifications of 'my hooking-devices, and Figure 9'shown-modification of my key, inwhich'barhs tt;

perform the duty of the headd.- A still inferior modification may have a plninpwooden key or wedge, in cornbination with my hooks of either form, and it is also obvious that I can entirelyvclispense with keys, for the panels being carefully-chatted, the several parts are securelyheld in position.

The key when ofmy improved form, whether bai-heil4 or headed, is preferahlyinserted from the top'or bottoni', and drivcnsdewisc down Orjupxthejoint, as thefcase i'nay be.

I claim herein as new, and of my inventionv 1. The headed wedge-form key D,.co`nstructed and applied, substantially as and for the purpose se't forth. 2. The paired hooks B B', in the described combination with two contiguous ,panels 4In testimony of which intention, I hereunto set'my'h'nnd. i

lWIIILAM- F. CONVERSE. Witnesses:

GEO. H. KNIGHT, JAMES E. LAYMAN. 

